Copper has a unique effect with magnets. It is not magnetic itself but it will generate an electric field from a moving magnet and this field directly and immediately impacts the magnet.
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From YT: Video highlighting my research on PowerPoint Turing Machines for CMU's SIGBOVIK 2017 From me: So it turns out PowerPoint is Years ago when I discovered you could export PowerPoint files... continue reading
posted by Ickster 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 58 views • 5:34At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there's a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They're used to generate random numbers and keep a good bit of the internet secure: here's how.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 769 views • 3:59YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months ago • 923 views • 4:46Published on Jan 5, 2017 Simon Sinek explains how the millennial generation became so entitled. A combination of failed parenting strategies, technology, impatience and environment have created a wave... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,539 views • 12:35Exploring a few innovations in nuclear power generation that could make new plants much safer...if we were still making new plants.
posted by newtboy 7 years 1 week ago • 629 views • 8:11... how about you? YouTube: Star Trek has been beaming its way into fans' hearts for over 50 years, reinventing itself time and time again. Most fans think they know everything there is to know about... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 937 views • 12:27Stirling engines are having a bit of a revival. What are they, and how do they work? Could they generate our electricity in the future?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months ago • 614 views • 19:06From YT: Congrats to Bruce, our latest recruit to pass his Initiation Test into the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy. We decided to share this part of his Initiation Test to encourage... continue reading
posted by iaui 7 years 10 months ago • 699 views • 5:26I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 1,388 views • 4:32Simulated tornado being generated by a supercomputer (Blue Waters) with 20,000 processing cores. I need a dictionary to figure out half of the terms used in the talk, but the simulations are stunning.
posted by Ashenkase 9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 89 views • 16:43"Mr. Feenie talks about how people of today's generation values pop culture and technology more than a solid education." From http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1u8rku/boy_meets_world_being_real_as_fuck/... continue reading
posted by ant 1 decade 4 months 3 weeks ago • 375 views • 1:46This is a really nice demonstration, and explanation of, what happens when you drop a magnet down a conducting non-magnetic tube. YouTube Description: Huge thanks to the Royal Institution, Professor... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 5 months ago • 228 views • 3:50For anyone who doesn't know already, and wonders why people claim Switzerland is building a Black Hole generator.
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